Deck 16: Social Change: Collective Behavior, Social Movements, and Technology

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT one of four stages ofa social movement?

A) Emergence
B) Conflict
C) Institutionalization
D) Decline

Answer 1

Social change:
A social change refers to the change or transformation in the social order of a community. It may include the alterations in nature, social institutions, behavior, or relations. A social change refers to any important changes over time in the cultural values or norms and behavioral patterns.
Statement:
The social movement is a prepared activity to encourage a social change. The social movement has four stages. They are as follows:
• Emergence: It is the first stage of social movement. It means that the individuals are disappointed about some conditions in the society and they want to change it. This gives rise to the social movement.
• Organization: In this stage, the people become consciousness about the problems and they try to organize themselves in a group.
• Institutionalization: The movement grows, and it becomes more practical and institutionalized.
• Decline: In this stage, a movement comes to an end. It can experience a resurrection in the later stage. Any social movements end with the decline stage.
Hence, (a), (c), and (d) are incorrect.
Justification:
The social movement has four stages. They are emergence, organization, institutionalization, and decline. Conflict is not one of the four stages of a social movement.
Hence, the option
is correct.

Question 2

True or False During the organization stage of social movements, the movement becomes more bureaucratic.

Answer 2

Social change:
A social change refers to the change or transformation in the social order of a community. It may include the alterations in nature, social institutions, behavior, or relations. A social change refers to any important changes over time in the cultural values or norms and behavioral patterns.
Justification:
The social movement is a prepared activity to encourage a social change. Emergence, organization, institutionalization, and decline are the four stages of social movement. During the institutionalization stage of social movement, the movement becomes more bureaucratic.
Hence, the give statement is
.

Question 3

True or False Gossip and urban legends are types of rumors.

Answer 3

Social change:
A social change refers to the change or transformation in the social order of a community. It may include the alterations in nature, social institutions, behavior, or relations. A social change refers to any important changes over time in the cultural values or norms and behavioral patterns.
Justification:
Rumor is an important example of collective behavior. Rumor means the gossip or piece of news that is not declared, but it quickly spreads among the people. Rumor simply refers to the undeclared information that quickly passes from one person to another. Gossips and urban legends are one type of rumors.
Hence, the given statement is
.

Question 4

True or False Mobs typically last longer than riots.

Question 5

True or False Environmentalism is an example of the new social movements theory.

Question 6

True or False A positive trend in technology is that the advances are now available to most low-income people.

Question 7

What conditions are necessary to produce social movements? What draws people into a social movement? If you're involved in a social movement now, which one and why?

Question 8

What, personally, have been some of the benefits and costs of technology in your life? Offer specific examples to illustrate your answer.

Question 9

According to sociologist Neil Smelser, which one of the following does NOT encourage collective behavior?

A) Structural strain
B) Growth and spread ofa generalized belief
C) Social control
D) Personal dissatisfaction at work or home

Question 10

A major difference between panic and mass hysteria is that

A) panics are typically not as severe as mass hysteria.
B) panics don't usually last as long as mass hysteria.
C) panics stem from imagined events, whereas mass hysteria arises from real events.
D) panics tend to occur less today, whereas mass hysteria occurs more frequently.

Question 11

The "amazing ball" was a toy that became incredibly popular and sold for a very high price, but its popularity dropped off very quickly. This is an example ofa

A) fashion.
B) fad.
C) craze.
D) disaster.

Question 12

______maintains that social movements emerge because there's a gap between what people have and what they think they should have compared with other people.

A) Mass society theory
B) Relative deprivation theory
C) Resource mobilization theory
D) New social movements theory